Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chautauqua County, N.Y., for 1873-4

1878

Chautauqua County (N.Y.)

Author: Hamilton Child

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Chautauqua County (N.Y.)

Page: 419

View: 7183

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

2011-12-14

History

Author: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 0786456183

Category: History

Page: 1616

View: 2939

This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals. Casualty transports, incarceration records and civilian casualty lists are also included.

Ordnance trigonometrical survey

1858

Cartography

Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Cartography

Page: 2

View: 4316

When Britain Saved the West

2015-01-01

History

Author: Robin Prior

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 0300166621

Category: History

Page: 335

View: 6814

How Britain, standing alone, persevered in the face of near-certain defeat at the hands of Nazi Germany From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time--war diaries, combat reports, Home Security's daily files, and much more--to uncover how Britain endured a year of menacing crises. The book reassesses key events of 1940--crises that were recognized as such at the time and others not fully appreciated. Prior examines Neville Chamberlain's government, Churchill's opponents, the collapse of France, the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz. He looks critically at the position of the United States before Pearl Harbor, and at Roosevelt's response to the crisis. Prior concludes that the nation was saved through a combination of political leadership, British Expeditionary Force determination and skill, Royal Air Force and Navy efforts to return soldiers to the homeland, and the determination of the people to fight on "in spite of all terror." As eloquent as it is controversial, this book exposes the full import of events in 1940, when Britain fought alone and Western civilization hung in the balance.